Sean Connery

Ten most fantastic film worlds of Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid gets around. Since the late '70s, he's appeared in more than seventy films and television shows, playing everything from a deep-space fighter pilot to an dragon-slaying warrior, and always with a certain swaggering charm. This Friday and Saturday at the Sie FilmCenter, Mile High Sci-Fi ... More >>

Mustaches: They're gross, they scratch my face, and the Civil War is over

Editor's note: Mustaches are derigeur on uncles, cops and closing pitchers, but they've also become a fixture on the upper lips of the young and the hip. In fact, it's hard to imagine a time since the Civil War when razors were so ignored. But the look can be polarizing, and Westword contributors Sa ... More >>

Has James Bond ever fit in?

Cloud Atlas Takes Off

See also: The many daring stories of Cloud Atlas can't be told properly in its run time

Second City alums Frank Caeti and Matt Craig on satire, cold medicine and Tebow

Second City Chicago is this country's Mecca of funny. Among its famous alumni are John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Steve Carrell and Tina Fey. It also happens to be the place where Frank Caeti, formerly of MadTV, and Matt Craig, a former Saturday Night Live writer, first met and performed together, crea ... More >>

Arron Afflalo winds up on Stiffs list after Nuggets' awful loss to Hornets

Denver blog posts want to have your baby. On his latest "Stiffs List," Denver Stiffs' Nate includes Arron Afflalo and plenty of others. Ooof. Colorado Pols: Sal Pace's well-funded Scott Tipton challenge. Denver Egotist shares an alleged letter from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs featuring the line, " ... More >>

Vodka: a shaken, but not stirred, history of the spirit on screen

​Vodka's rise to popularity wasn't just a matter of taste. As outlined in "Clear Thinking," this week's cover story, brilliant marketing also had a lot to do with the spirit's growth. And that marketing included placements in both movies and television shows -- sometimes purchased, sometimes j ... More >>

Review: Pretty Lights at the Fillmore, 8/12/11

Pretty Lights, aka Derek Smith​PRETTY LIGHTS at the FILLMORE | 8/12/11Pretty Lights Music is more than just a label now. It's more than a producer. It's more than Derek Vincent Smith. It's huge. Backed by a solid team of producers and talented deejays, the audience last night at the sold-out F ... More >>

On the 22nd anniversary of License to Kill, here's to you, Timothy Dalton

​The '80s were not a kind time to James Bond. Always an actor-driven franchise, it rolled into the decade in the waning years of Roger Moore, who would from The Spy Who Loved Me on through Octopussy and A View to Kill, his last entry, see declining profitability in the franchise as people lost ... More >>

Bond, James Bond

Transformers 3: we brought this upon ourselves

This time around, he even impressed himself.​Earlier this year, we postulated that Michael Bay's entire career has been about punishing the audience for their awful taste -- namely, their taste for his work. He's tried racism, homophobia, assaultive cinematography and editing techniques, objec ... More >>

Reader: "'Any" Connery Bond? Even 'Never Say Never Again?'"

​There are some movies you'll watch on TV no matter how many times you've seen them before. Yesterday, I called these "catnip movies" and unloaded my list of flicks that grab my attention and keep it, commercials and all. Among the movies on my list were Westerns with Clint Eastwood, either G ... More >>

Ten movies you'll watch no matter how many times you've seen them before

​For my dad, it's Some Like it Hot. For me, it's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. They're catnip movies: the films you'll watch when they come on TV no matter how many times you've seen them before. Commercials? Yes. Edited scenes? Yes. I don't care. Hand me a bowl of popcorn and keep the remot ... More >>

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Five great actors that phoned in iconic roles for terrible sequels

This is the smug grin you make when you no longer give a shit.​Johnny Depp gotta eat. And pay his mortgage. And Disney pays very well. Maybe that explains why he looks so thoroughly bored in the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, opening tomorrow. Captain Jack Sparrow was endeari ... More >>

Alfred Hitchcock's rape scene: What's the message?

​Tonight, The Denver Public Library's Rare and Rarely Seen Hitchcock series comes to a close with a screening of Marnie. One of the director's final films, the movie deals with a psychologically damaged union between characters played by Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren. Their strange marriage r ... More >>

Top 10 list of Colorado movies a ten-cent ticket fee didn't subsidize

"The Searchers."​The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers -- ... More >>

ThunderCats's new look: Why so serious, Lion-O?

​Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world's most block-headed straight man -- even Tim B ... More >>

Irvin Kershner's ten best films: RoboCop2 and Star Wars among them

Image via towerofyouth.orgIrv Kershner​Rest in peace, Irvin Kershner, you director of RoboCop 2 and some film called The Empire Strikes Back. Born in 1923, he died over the weekend at the age of 87 and left behind an oeuvre of great filmmaking -- including no small number of sequels. So it ma ... More >>

Cake or Death

Eddie Izzard takes the Paramount Theatre stage.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole.

The Clan

What do Scots have in common with Mexicans?

Shoot 'Em Up

This film proves that its star could have been a killer Bond.

The AFI Top 100 Films -- And The Top Ten Movies Filmed in Colorado

Franchise Player

Casino Royale

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy -- and comes up aces.

Doll Parts

Kristine Hipps brings a wild new parody to the Bug.

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes one long for good Nic Cage movies . . .like Con Air.

Tears of a Clown

The ups and downs of being Blinky

All Aboard!

Old pufferbellies stay on track at the Narrow Gauge Railfest.

Think Distinct

This summer's movies could withstand the drought.

Kitchen Magician

Someone's in the cocina with Jason.

Wiz Quiz

Test your Harry Potter knowledge with this quiz.

Nobody Does It Better

Blending free jazz with film lore, Sex Mob reworks old James Bond soundtracks for a sound that's shaken and stirred.

Best Independent Video Store -- Avant-Garde

Video Station

Lipstick Traces

Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved, and is that so wrong?

Good Will Hunting 2: The Revenge

Finding Forrester tries to get it right.

Birth of the Cool

The World Is Not Enough

Power Points

In His Life

Beatles producer George Martin tries to pass along the wisdom of the ages.

Love for Sale

A Star Is Borin'

007 by the Numbers

Smack Into Reality

Bursting With Good Actors

Thy Humble Serpent

Courting Disaster

LACK OF DEPTH

A TRUE CRIME

POOR UNCLE ALBERT

THE UGLY BRITON